On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:34:19 GMT, Joseph Meehan wrote:

Mike Ruskai wrote:

Just use a modern outlet. Screw a ground wire into the outlet box,
and connect that to the ground screw on the outlet (the green one).
It won't be properly grounded (unless the box is actually grounded,
which is unlikely), but there's no harm in wiring it that way. It
won't be any worse for grounded appliances than using those three
prong/two prong adapters.

Yea, that's what Bubal would do. It also happens to be really foolish
and dangerous. They make those rules because people can get killed.

It's neither foolish nor dangerous. It's simply practical, and, as I
said, is precisely as safe as using plug adapters, which is what would
happen otherwise if a three-prong device needed to be plugged in.

The maximum reasonable paranoia would simply dictate that the outlet be
marked as not grounded. Your reaction is completely inappropriate and
even laughable.


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- Mike

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